/u/Lorix_In_Oz's posts in /r/WritingPrompts
[WP] The Gods took credit for the creation of humanity, even though the truth was that they had no idea what the origin of our species truly was. This is why they fear us, individually we are weak but collectively we were made to hold the Gods in check and not the other way around.
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[WP] Time-travel is very real except we don't have it yet. What we do know is that there is a group of time-travelling historians from the far future who regularly show up to observe "major events" throughout history, their appearance typically heralding moments of significant change.
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[WP] An unknown force throws the entire Earth and it's population into a "Groundhog Day" style time loop. At first it was a curious novelty but now after millions of repeated cycles humanity as a whole has been pushed well past the breaking point.
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[WP] A world where days have started repeating twice. Everyone experiences the second day as a do-over of the first but only the actions and consequences of that second day end up carrying forward in time.
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[EU] A major ISIS attack on London Muggles indirectly kills a number of Wizards and the Ministry of Magic decides it can no longer stand idly by. When a trained team is sent to deal directly with those responsible they begin to suspect the terrorists have a magic user among their number.
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[WP] Technology has advanced to the point where we are starting to see human souls reincarnate into the AI's we create. The difference is they have a full recollection of their previous lives whereas humans do not.
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[WP] Since we sequenced the human genome we have been passively broadcasting it to the rest of the galaxy. Now that humanity has reached the stars we are shocked to discover that alien civilisations have already reconstructed and grown our species from that information.
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[WP] You aren't super-strong or anything, it's just that nothing can stop any movement you decide to make. After being wrongfully arrested and convicted in court you decide you have had enough of this shit and to walk out unopposed.
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